accountability & sustainability

Documentation scope: four full seasonal field sessions totaling a minimum of twenty weeks, with coverage spanning at least six geographic regions and at least three Indigenous communities

Schedule: fieldwork completed within twelve months of the start of the autumn session, with post-production, exhibition, and publication to follow

Artistic quality: a finished, edited body of work prepared for exhibition, reviewed with institutional partners and curatorial advisors

Cultural integrity: all portrait and community work conducted with explicit consent, Indigenous consultant involvement, and community review

Reporting: updates from the field after each seasonal session, a full project report on completion, and tracking of exhibition attendance, book distribution, and digital archive access

Carbon Offset: A year of fieldwork in Alaska carries a heavy carbon footprint. I estimate 22 tons of CO2e from field travel. Rather than buy offsets, I will contribute directly to land restoration.

• Emissions will be tracked using the Wren carbon-accounting platform.

• An equivalent contribution will go to Instituto Terra.

Instituto Terra was founded by the photographer Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado. Salgado spent his last decades transforming a barren cattle ranch into a living forest of more than two million trees. We lost him last year, but the work continues under Lélia’s leadership. His photography and his reforestation work are a source of inspiration for this project, and this contribution is made in his honor.